Elkhorn Slough Variety Pack

Another batch of images from the Elkhorn trip. One again these were all taken with the 20D & 500mm f/4 L or 400mm f/5.6L and all were hand-held. EXIF data is intact as always. C&C encouraged.

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1) Brandt's Cormorant

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Beautiful shots Ed...love the colors on the cormorant, and the eyes are really pretty...great series...steve

man.. those are stunning!!

great job. Elkhorn Slough is a treasure chest of opportunities, and you have done exceptionally well with them.

Excellent shots, very sharp with nice detail... What a great variety you have there!

ajosteve wrote in post #4293517
Beautiful shots Ed...love the colors on the cormorant, and the eyes are really pretty...great series...steve

Thanks Steve. Cormorants do tend to have jewel-like eyes. And for my part, the Pleagic is our prettiest Cormroant here in Northern CA. I would like to get some better images of one someday...

shannyD wrote in post #4293526
man.. those are stunning!!

Thanks Shannon! BTW, I love your "location"

Bignerd wrote in post #4293837
great job. Elkhorn Slough is a treasure chest of opportunities, and you have done exceptionally well with them.

Thanks for the kind words Larry. Yep, Elkhorn is a wonderful location of birds. I do need to get back there in the spring though, when their colors will be at their peak.

[QUOTE=downywp;4293844​]Excellent shots, very sharp with nice detail... What a great variety you have there![/Q

Thanks for the nice comments Downy! I appreciate it.

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Great Variety Ed, Thanks for sharing These are better than in any Bird books I've seen!!!

Very nice Ed, you have captured some real gems in this series.

hTr wrote in post #4295404
Great Variety Ed, Thanks for sharing These are better than in any Bird books I've seen!!!

Thanks Gary. I'm blushing here!

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bromm wrote in post #4295481
Very nice Ed, you have captured some real gems in this series.

Thanks for the comments Trevor!

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Excellent series, Ed. We visited Elkhorn Slough back in July and can't wait to return probably in October 2009. Did you do the Safari, visit the preserve or both? We did both and it was super. In addition to the birds, we saw a raft of 75 otters in the Slough.

Wow Ed, this post is like a coffee table book of west coast birds. All of them are gorgeous. I love the colors and variety. Awesome.

EdV wrote in post #4297287
Excellent series, Ed. We visited Elkhorn Slough back in July and can't wait to return probably in October 2009. Did you do the Safari, visit the preserve or both? We did both and it was super. In addition to the birds, we saw a raft of 75 otters in the Slough.

Ed: Thanks for the kind words. We just did the Safari, but we did two trips - morning and evening. Net time I plan to do the preserve as well. As for the otters, my first post from this trip was of the Sea Otters. Here is the link: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=4036

canonloader wrote in post #4297318
Wow Ed, this post is like a coffee table book of west coast birds. All of them are gorgeous. I love the colors and variety. Awesome.

Thanks Mitch. There were a few more as well, but there are so many GBH and Egret postings that I didn't bother with any of those. I wasn' thrilled with my Loon images (only a couple anyway) and as they are one of my favorite birds, I won't post anything that's not up to snuff of those guys. Also, they are really much more beautiful when they aren't in their winter plumage.

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Beautiful and well captured series of images as always Ed.

Great shots! love all the detail in them